Malicious npm packages targeting developers in 2025
A year-end look at 2025's npm supply chain attacks—chalk/debug phishing, the Shai-Hulud worm, and industrialized malware campaigns—and how to defend against them.
Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
A year-end look at 2025's npm supply chain attacks—chalk/debug phishing, the Shai-Hulud worm, and industrialized malware campaigns—and how to defend against them.
CVE-2018-16874: a directory traversal flaw in Go's go get let malicious GOPATH import paths with curly braces write files outside the workspace.
A roundup of npm typosquatting campaign patterns, from dependency confusion to AI-tooling lookalikes, and how teams can detect exposure fast.
CVE-2021-41116 let malicious composer.json platform config values inject PHP code into Composer autoload files, causing code execution on install.
npm postinstall script malware surged 61% in H1 2026. Here's how attackers weaponize lifecycle hooks — and how to detect and stop them.
A 2022 Packagist webhook vulnerability let a crafted GitHub branch name trigger command injection on Packagist's servers, threatening the entire PHP/Composer supply chain.
Recent npm maintainer account takeovers show how a single stolen credential can compromise billions of downloads. Here's the anatomy of the threat—and the defense.
CVE-2024-38366 exposed a critical remote code execution flaw in the CocoaPods trunk server, threatening the iOS dependency supply chain for years undetected.
CVE-2024-38367 let attackers bypass email verification on the CocoaPods trunk server to take over pod owner accounts, threatening the iOS supply chain. Here's the impact and fix.
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